When it becomes clear that no one else shares your level of passion, you are where you belong.
What is sad is not to be able to do today what you have done in your youth. But what is good is to remember that - when you were able - you did it to the best of your ability.
The high note is not the only thing.
I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.
I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.
We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
My strength is my enthusiasm.
Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.
When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.
The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck.
But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.
The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.
I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.
Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.
To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day.
On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.
Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.
Singing becomes a form of therapy.
Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.
When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
